In Winter Quarters 



kept track of their ancestry, and many 

 have not cared enough about the mat- 

 ter to even inquire as to who was 

 really responsible. No family is of 

 course any better than it is. It is not 

 a question of the names of the an- 

 cestors, but of their personality, and 

 unfortunately genealogy commonly 

 fails to supply sufficient information 

 as to the amount and quality of gray 

 matter or refinement, or mental and 

 physical endowment generally to ren- 

 der it of any value to the student of 

 scientific breeding or heredity. 



We keep tab on our cows with much 

 more intelligence. If the pedigree 

 registry tells you exactly how much 

 milk each female ancestress has yielded 

 for generations past, you have a record 

 of performance you can build upon 

 with confidence. And if it appears 

 from the books that the paternal an- 

 cestors have been distinguished win- 

 ners at the shows, there is a useful 

 chart to shape one's course by. In 

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